[Update: Minor Incidents] “Very Large Boulder” and Tree on 299

The California Highway Patrol page is reporting that a “very large boulder” has rolled onto Highway 299. Unlike the recent slide that happened near Big Bar, this one is in Humboldt County. At this point, we don’t know how much of the road is blocked, but we will update this post when we find out more.

Update: The incident was posted on the CHP incident page at 7:04 p.m. At this point, the incident has been taken off of the page.

Update: There was also a report of a tree blocking one lane of the highway just east of that location.

Update: Unlike what was initially reported to dispatchers, it turned out the tree wasn’t in the roadway.

That’s good to hear. It was odd because both incidents were taken down fairly quickly. Here’s a link to the fallen tree, and here’s one to the boulder in the road. I don’t know what happened with the boulder, but the tree turned out to be off of the roadway. Sometimes people call things into the dispatch center that don’t turn out to be entirely true.